Nature play and the summer rains – storm watching, frogs and muddy puddles.
Summer in the subtropics is meant to be the wet season, but until today the rains have held…
Up-cycling plant pots and homeschool photography
Sitting in a local cafe yesterday, my eyes were drawn to the interesting potted plants on the tables…
‘Live simply so that others may simply live’
‘Live simply so that others may simply live.’ “You must be the change you want to see in…
Yarn bombing – colouring the streets with knitting and crochet
Yarn bombing’s popularity has spread across the world over the past decade and reached our little town. Knitters…
Worm Towers – a quick and easy way to turn food waste into garden fertiliser – without digging or turning.
Australian’s typically throw away 20% of the food they buy – that’ one out of every 5 shopping…
Quick and Easy Healthy Choc-Banana Cake
Homeschooling for 2016 started today. One of our first projects was to create some thank you and celebratory…
Hardy summer plants
Since the start of January we have been away from our garden – at the Woodford Festival and…
Children’s permaculture workshops
Leading children’s permaculture workshops at the Mt Cootha Botanic Gardens was my adventure yesterday. There was wonderful creative…
Think Global: Eat Local – a diet for a sustainable society. Our film.
Our film, Think Global: Eat Local combines 15 years of footage from 15 countries in a 15 minute…
Baby wildlife on our verandah
A tiny baby turtle mysteriously appeared on our verandah today. We had only just arrived home to Crystal…